[MOVED] Red Hat Satellite or Spacewalk ?

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Can anybody describe the difference between the two ? Which one should be used in case most of our systems are RH ?

And what about the future/roadmap of both products ?

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Hi Przemek,

http://spacewalk.redhat.com

It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

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Everything depends on your usage model / support / SLA. Some companies prefers to have proper subscription with 24/7 offcial support. For some it's even mandatory to have it.
 

If you you are one of them - the answer is easy - Satellite.
 
 
In case you don't need it and downtime for this component is not major issue / you have local support guys who knows it very well and can recover working based on information on forums and working with community - you can consider spacewalk. It won't cost you anything as well.
 

Both will work fine.
 

I'm sorry I'm not adding any technical information - however I think you need to start with above. Once you understand your business / support model, check what you need it for (does it meet your requirements?). Only then you can go and compare it feature vs feature (spacewalk has it more - another question is - do you need it?)
 
Regards,
-Artur.

Thanks Artur - it clarifies some things. Especially from official support point of view.

Is the Spacewalk bleeding edge product and Satellite is the derivied from the the Spacewalk ? Or they are quite different

paths and one is going to be abandoned in the future (the "future" is the key word) ?

In general what is the roadmap for both ?

 

Sorry for formatting - I was trying to change it but it seems safari with this build in editor are not 100%

 

I think the easiest way is to think about Satellite as Red Hat Enterprise and Spacewalk as Fedora.

 

Expectation is that what’s the best, desired and working fine in Spacewalk – will be implemented in future versions of Satellite.

To add to what Artur mentioned -

From the spacewalk FAQ you can refer "What's the difference between Satellite and Spacewalk?"

Regarding the roadmap, you can refer the presentations from Red Hat Summit 2013. I think this would be very helpful for you to get an understanding roadmap of the product. You can refer :

Hope this helps to get some clarify on roadmap and differences between Satellite & Spacewalk

Paresh

Thanks Paresh - it becomes more clear now what to choose.

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